On certain homotopy actions of general linear groups on iterated products (Q5956586): Difference between revisions

Several important advances in homotopy theory have used wedge decompositions or splittings to construct spaces with desirable properties. For example one often seeks spaces whose mod-\(p\) cohomology is free over a subalgebra of the Steenrod algebra. Previous work along these lines has considered iterated products of the abelian \(H\)-spaces \(X=B (Z/p^rZ)\) and \(B(Z_p)\). Here the authors show that the same sort of splitting occurs when \(X\) satisfies much weaker requirements. As applications they give decompositions for iterated products of \(\Omega^2 S^3\), SO(4), and \(G_2\). The latter two are not even homotopy commutative.